ORWELL (George).
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in red. London, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
ORWELL (George).
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
A good copy of the first edition of Orwell's most renown dystopian novel.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8.
A good copy, lacking dust jacket, paperstock only minimally browned but otherwise entirely clean and unmarked, cloth somewhat discoloured, especially along spine.
Stock No.
260305
